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Barbara Hershey to Star in Lifetime TV Movie 'Left to Die'

Rachael Leigh Cook will co-star in the true story of Sandra Chase, a woman who was wrongly imprisoned for drug trafficking during a vacation in Ecuador.

Barbara Hershey is heading to Lifetime.

The Oscar nominee has been tapped to star in the female-skewing cabler's original telepic Left to Die, The Hollywood Reporterhas learned.

Based on a true story, Hershey will play Sandra Chase, a woman who takes an innocent vacation in Ecuador but ends up being wrongly imprisoned for drug trafficking. Rachael Leigh Cook (Perception) will play Tammi, Sandra's daughter who fights for her mother's release in the TV movie from Sony Pictures Television, Blue Blazer Productions and Sandbar Pictures.

Hershey, whose recent credits include Black Swan and an arc on ABC's Once Upon a Time, picked up a supporting actress Oscar nomination for 1996's The Portrait of a Lady. She's repped by Pakula/King & Associates, Impression Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman.